Balochistan university BA, BSc results

Balochistan university declared BA, BSc 2009 results
Quetta, Jan 31: University of Balochistan declared results of BA/ B Sc annual examination 2009 here Saturday. According to
University gazette a total of 14318 candidates appeared for the examination and
9295 came out successful. In B Sc examination, first three positions were
clinched by female candidates.

Ms Faiza Hameed Jan roll no 15 stood first with
627 marks. She is student of Government Girls College Quetta Cantt. Second
position went to Ms Sana Kazmi roll no 216. She bagged 621 marks. She belongs to
Government Girls College Quarry road, Quetta.

Nepotism rules the roost at PIMS
Islamabad: Alleged nepotism coupled with administrative irregularities was
witnessed during induction process of the house-job officers held two weeks back
at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), blatantly ignoring the
deserving candidates, it has been learnt.

According to the sources within
the hospital administration, some deserving and brilliant candidates of the
Dental Department were deprived of their right. Once again, the trainee doctors
who had already availed themselves of the paid house-jobs were inducted while
the non-paid candidates who have been undergoing from their house job training
for the last eight to ten months were marginalised.

Over a dozen candidates had
appeared in tests for the house-job officers' training in the Dental Department
but only six were selected. Being an utter surprise for the students, one of
their colleagues had qualified the written test and her name was displayed in
the list of qualified candidates.

Later, her name was placed in the waiting
list. The tale of favouritism does not end there, the student who had 'topped'
the house-job test was one with notorious reputation of having a poor academic
record and short attendance. The induction for house-jobs are allegedly
politically motivated and strongly inter-linked to personal contacts, liking,
and disliking.

Besides, out of those six candidates, three were those who
were already being paid Rs18,000 per month. The new induction process was held
to give opportunity to fresh candidates but instead of selecting the candidates
doing house-job training on non-payment, the already paid candidates were
selected.

"The selected candidates are having short attendance during their
training and also have a poor performance record" sources continued. The
remaining three candidates those who were put on the waiting list also do not
qualify the set criteria and they had a disputed academic record," sources
further informed.

"When some candidates contacted ED, Dr Ghazala Mehmood, she
refused to listen to their grievances," the sources said. It is worth-recalling
here that without any appointment of a permanent head at PIMS, continuous
mismanagement on part of the hospital administration goes unchecked causing
numerous problems.

When Acting Executive Director PIMS, Dr Ghazala Mehmood
was contacted in this regard, she insisted that according to the rules, it was
not possible to re-induct a house-job trainee. She assured that she would look
into the matter and if any kind of irregularity was found, she would revert the
decision. The nation

Gilani dissatisfied with standard of education in govt schools
Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday
paid a surprise visit to FG Girls Higher Secondary School, G-8/4, and expressed
his dissatisfaction over standard of education in government schools.

The
PM's visit to the school was a part of his efforts to break the inertia in the
government departments.

The prime minister went around the various
classrooms and talked with the students about their curricular and
extra-curricular activities.

As the school administration was not aware
of the PM's visit in advanced, so they were caught in surprise and failed to
make cosmetic preparations to impress him.

In lighter tone, the prime
minister also questioned the students whether they wanted to become politician
or journalists, the students replied in negative.

Interestingly, when he
asked whether they wanted to become a judge, they also replied in
negative.

Majority of the students expressed their desire to become
doctor and teachers while replying to the prime minister's
questions.

During his visit to computer laboratory of the school, he
noticed that computer teachers were absent and the students were being taught by
a lab assistant.

The prime minister also noticed that the students
working on the computer were not trained in typing on the keyboard.

When
the prime minister visited the library of the school, he noticed that the dust
was lying in cupboards and on books that showed that they were never opened and
used for reading.

After seeing the conditions of the computer lab and
library, the premier announced their upgradation.

He also attended a
lecture of Pakistan studies along with the students who were amazed to see him
among them.

During his interaction with the students, the prime minister
questioned them about Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
Pakistan Resolution and terrorism but got no impressing answer.

The prime
minister when asked the students about the teachers, they told him that there
was a shortage of teachers of English, Maths, Computer Studies and
Biology.

When the principle of the school tried to reply instead of the
students, the prime minister stopped her and said, "I just came here to get
feedback from the students."

The prime minister also inquired from the
students about the conditions of the toilets of the school. He directed the
school administration to keep the toilets clean and provide hygienic conditions
to the students.

The PM instructed the students to pay full attention to
their studies and become useful citizens of the country.

Speaking on the
occasion the prime minister said the government is giving top priority to
improve the education standard in the country to meet the modern day
requirements.

He said the government has formulated a new education
policy taking all stakeholders including the four provinces into confidence to
ensure its proper implementation.

He said under this policy, the
government wanted to make the education free at the primary level besides
launching of training programmes for the teachers to enhance their capabilities
and skills.

He said the government has also set up a task force to
encourage technical education for creating new job opportunities for the youth.

CDA school prize distribution
Islamabad: Capital Development Authority (CDA) Model School,
I-9/4 celebrated its 23rd annual prize distribution ceremony for those, who
achieved distinctions during the year in various inter-house competitions,
sports and SSC Exams.

Seven students, who remained in the top 60 in the
SSC exams held under the Federal Board of Intermediate & Secondary
Education, were given cash prizes.

Kaneez Fatima was awarded gold medal
and cash prize of Rs5,000 in Science Group, while Kuntum Zehra and Niegarh Zehra
were awarded gold medals and cash prizes of Rs3,000 each in General Group.
Moreover, Nosheen Sadiq was adjudged the All Rounder Best Student from the
senior section and Fariha Qaiser from the junior section of the school.

In the senior section, Noor Jahan House took the Co-Curricular Trophy
and the Academic Trophy was won by Razia Sultana House, while in the junior
section, Nishter House won the Co-Curricular Trophy while Noor House and Jinnah
House were the joint winners of the Academic Trophy.

Chairman CDA Imtiaz
Inayat Elahi, while speaking on the occasion, appreciated the winning students
and their teachers and parents, terming it a pleasure to see the students
perform extraordinarily well in their respected fields.

He said besides
the course studies, students should be imparted knowledge regarding the
environment. "Students should be aware of the methods of preservation and
conservation of water besides knowing about how to behave environment friendly,"
he said and added that CDA would conduct various events to raise awareness
regarding the environment among students, which would include painting and
debate competitions.

Addressing on the occasion, Principal CDA School
Shahwar Ajmal said they are with CDA in their efforts to establish the culture
of good governance, merit and transparency in the Authority, besides commending
the idea of education city. "The visual face of the capital city has massively
changed in the recent years. Empty roads and grassy plots have now been replaced
with well developed parks, playgrounds, dual carriages, high rises and
underpasses," she said.

She said in order to commemorate 50 golden years
of Clean & Green Islamabad, special programmes including tableaus, quiz
shows, essay writings and speech contest would be held. The news

Robot navigation contest
Islamabad: Yousaf Ali Khan, studying in Hanyang University, South Korea, under Higher Education Commission (HEC)
scholarship programme, has won the first prize in International Robot Outdoor
Navigation Contest 2009 held at Gwangju, Korea.

According to a press
release, 13 teams from Japan and China participated in the competition organised
by the Gwangju Technopark, Gwangju, Korea. Yousaf's team, comprising himself and
Jung-eui Jung (Korea), made the best records and got the first
prize.

"The credit goes to HEC, which gave me an opportunity to study in
South Korea and participate in the competition," said Khan. Daily times

Islamic university conference
Islamabad: The International Islamic University Islamabad
(IIUI) in collaboration with the Archaeological and Historical Association of
Pakistan (AHAP) is holding a conference on life, and teachings of Hazrat Khawaja
Bahauddin Zakariya (RA) on February 3.

Leading scholars have been invited
to address the conference. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Sajjada Nasheen of
Dargah Hazrat Bahauddin Zakariya Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi will be the chief
guest on this occasion.

Medical students' quota
Islamabad: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah called
on Minister for Health, Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Saturday and discussed matters
pertaining to increased quota of medical students in medical and dental colleges
of Punjab.

The minister apprised the Chief Minister that the federal government
under direction of the Prime Minister has decided to increase the quota of
medical students of Gilgit-Baltistan from 34 to 64 in the medical and dental
colleges of Punjab. The news